Silhouette

When I was growing up my grandma had silhouettes of all of her kids cut out from black paper and framed. I used to love them. Earlier today on Etsy so I saw some of the same silhouettes and I thought to myself - if someone else can do it I can do it too! So I made one of Chase. The below one is a bit messy since it is just a template that I then cut out of paper but it gives you an idea. I am going to cut some out of paper and make Christmas ornaments on square pieces of chip board. I am pretty excited.

Snow! (...or bubbles...)

Chase played in the snow for the first time yesterday. He still calls it bubbles and he was much more interested in the rocks than the actual snow but it was really cute. I don't think he really understood what to do in it...


Other cute things Chase has been doing lately:
- He will look at me before he does something he knows he shouldn't do (like feed his food to the dogs) and he will shake his finger at me and say "no no no" and then do whatever he was going to do anyways
- He carries around our iPhones like a boom box and dances to the music
- When he reads the Spot book every time we lift a tab that Spot isn't under he shouts "NO!"
- He has stinky little boy feet and one of his favorite games is smelling his feet and saying "EWWWW"

Baby Hat Disaster

This baby hat has been the biggest disaster ever! I am trying to make one for a Christmas present but the first one I made was too small (see pictures below). So I started to make another one just like it that is the right size and it got so messed up I had to start over. Very frustrating! I am determined to get it right though because it would be a great little gift.

Knit Hat Ornaments

In order to practice my knitting a bit I have been making little hat Christmas ornaments. I think they are adorable!

A Love of Crocs

Chase is in love with Crocs...


Every time we go by the Croc cart at a mall he points at the Crocs and asks for more and cries when we leave. He has also taken up the habit of carrying our Crocs around the house. The most recent adorable Croc loving thing that Chase has started doing is that every morning he puts on Boris' Crocs. It is adorable.

Knit Baby Hat

I finished my knit baby hat last night! I love it - I can't decide if I should sell it on Etsy or keep it for Chase. I am very happy with how it turned out. I may add a bead embellishment still...

Build a Bear

Last weekend, Boris, Graham, and I took Chase to the Build-a-Bear workshop so that he could pick out a bear. We went in and showed Chase all of the different bears. To Boris' horror Chase did indeed fall in love with a bear - it just happened to be the pink bear with hearts all over it. No matter how many times we tried to convince him to pick another bear, he kept going back to the pink bear. He would hug it and snuggle it and whack away any other bear we showed him. We even took him to the section with the dressed up bears and he still managed to find the only pink heart bear in the bunch.


Graham and I tried to convince Boris to get the pink bear but he just couldn't do it...the only other bear that Chase showed any interest in was a neon blue bear with silver sparkles in its fur... Needless to say, we left the workshop without a bear...

Back to Knitting

Over the years I have had a love hate relationship with knitting and crocheting. I start project after project but I never finish anything. I finally finished a scarf that I started while I was pregnant with Chase!!! I should have taken a picture of Chase wearing it as it is much more adorable but he is with his Grammy this afternoon. I am once again determined to learn how to knit - so I started to knit a baby hat and I ordered a pattern for arm warmers - we'll see if I am more successful this time around.

Necklaces

Here are two more stamped necklaces that I made.

Twilight - On the Big Screen

Last night I did something very out of character and I stayed up and went to the 12:01 showing of the movie Twilight. It was very fun - although it did remind me why I usually try to avoid movies swarming with young girls - and it also made me wonder "what are some parents thinking letting a kid that young out on a school night?!" (I mean there were like 7 year olds there).


I am a complete Twilight addict and I loved the books so of course the movie was a little disappointing. It was okay but I think they had a hard time capturing Bella and Edward's relationship. In the book the relationship starts out a bit uncomfortable and awkward but as the book progresses it grows in to a really close intimate relationship where the two characters really understand and know each other and do fall in love. In the movie I felt like they were "trying too hard / acting too much" which made everything feel a little too forced and the relationship never grew past the uncomfortable stage for me. Also, I think Bella's character seemed too fearful which was not something that I really picked up about her in the book. I would also say they missed the boat a little bit with a couple of the other characters and relationships but it is hard to fit all of that into a movie. This is the problem with reading a book and then seeing a movie - it is just too hard to fit all of that character development into 2 hours.


I was also a little disappointed in some of the casting choices (specifically for Edward)...


But for all my complaining I'm glad I went, I had a great time and overall the movie was okay.